College of Natural Resources Professor Presents Invited Lecture on Clean Water Act

Friday, March 16 2012

Jay O’Laughlin, forestry professor and director of the University of Idaho Policy Analysis Group, presented “The Clean Water Act: Fundamentals and Effects on Forestry” to kick off the 2012 Starker Lecture Series “Watershed Moments: People, Forests, and Water” hosted by Oregon State University. The lecture was based on a report explaining to Idaho resource managers and policy makers how polluted surface water runoff from forest lands is controlled. O’Laughlin included discussion on the current forest roads lawsuit originating in Oregon, for which a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case is pending. The lecture can be viewed at http://media.oregonstate.edu/index.php/show/the_clean_water_act%3a_fundamentals_and_effects_on_forestry?id=0_2ig69div

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